Adrian woman accused of passing bad checks

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Jul 25, 2018 at 6:00 AM

An Adrian woman was arraigned Monday on 12 charges related to accusations that she passed bad checks and committed fraud earlier this year. Natalie Ann Lowell, 49, already faced two counts each of uttering and publishing and forgery.

On Monday in Lenawee County District Court she was arraigned on 10 counts of uttering and publishing, nine counts of no account check, seven counts of forgery and four counts of financial transaction device withdrawal or transfer fraud $1,000-$20,000, all felonies. She was also charged with misdemeanor counts of nonsufficient funds check $100-$500, financial transaction device withdrawal or transfer fraud $200-$1,000 and third-degree retail fraud.

A preliminary hearing on the new charges was set for Monday, July 30, and $32,000 was added to her bond, which had been reduced to personal recognizance.

She is accused of passing three forged checks and writing checks on a closed account between March 1-11 at the Wesco store in Adrian, depositing four forged checks from a closed account into an another person’s account at a TLC Community Credit Union ATM and then withdrawing cash between Feb. 7 and Feb. 10 in Onsted, and passing three checks written on accounts that were closed or had insufficient funds in them and opening an account at Lenco Credit Union with a bad check and then withdrawing cash between May 1-3 in Adrian.

The misdemeanor bad check and fraud charges are from the May 1-3 incident. The retail fraud is from the March 1-11 incident.

According to police statements in the court files, the new charges involve bad checks written for more than $4,700.

The Lenawee County Prosecutor’s Office earlier this month dismissed 11 counts of uttering and publishing against Lowell “in the best interest of justice,” according to district court records. Those offenses were alleged to have occurred in 2014, but she was charged with them in June.

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